Social Justice, vol. 31, no. 4, Native Women and State Violence, 2004, pp. 54-62
Description
Authors speaks about experiences with family members and drug abuse and looks at banishment as a form of punishment in the Lummi Nation tribal community.
Report attempts to develop a blueprint and make recommendations to improve the health status of women in areas such as diabetes, youth suicide, and HIV/AIDs.
Proposes a variety of solutions to issues such as inadequate housing and income, low levels of employment, education, and overall economic advancement for Aboriginal women.
Catholic Historical Review, vol. 90, no. 2, April 2004, pp. 260-272
Description
Looks at the significance of Kateri Tekakwitha, and the nostalgic, fictionalized autobiography The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha written by Ellen Walworth.
Discusses Aboriginal treaty rights to draw a livelihood from the land through subsistence harvesting, and looks at the direct relationship with modern commercial forestry.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 24, no. 1, Q epethet ye Mestiyexw, 2000, pp. 45-56
Description
Explores the concept of the nature of art as it relates to the experience of Indigenous peoples, specifically the residents of the Ashcroft First Nation (British Columbia).
Research looked at four topics: nature of nursing practice, roles and functions, commonalities and differences among roles and functions in various settings, and factors which facilitate or hinder practice and development of expertise. Methods involved analysis of Registered Nurses Database to develop a demographic profile, systematic analyses of policy and administrative documents, national survey of 3,933 registered nurses, and interviews with 152 practitioners about their experiences.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 2, Tribal College Research, Winter, 2004
Description
Discussion of an allotment of $7.2 million US annually for the next 20 years to be given to Diné College, the Crownpoint Institute of Technology, and the Office of Navajo Nation Scholarship and Financial Assistance.
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jutta Vogelbacher
Description
Discusses how a curriculum framed from the Aboriginal perspective benefits Native American students.
International Journal of Educational Research, vol. 33, no. 6, 2000, pp. 621-629
Description
Explains transitional problems as being affected primarily by community characteristics such as socioeconomic status and rural location as well as those unique to the Navajo such traditions, theology and culture.
Ten-year anthroplogical study tracked students from 1980-1981 to 1988-1989. Author argues problems of retention and success in school are part of conflict in the larger community.
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 65, no. 3, Fall , 1995, pp. 403-444
Description
Results of a ethnographic study on the lives of Navajo youth, describing the racial and cultural struggle between Native American Indians and non-Native Americans.
Discusses the ongoing "systemic racism" in Canada, with the case of Clayton Matchee, a paratrooper in the Canadian Airborne Regiment who allegedly participated in the murder of a Somali citizen, being a possible example.
Research Report (Correctional Service of Canada) ; no. R-142
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shelley Trevethan
John-Patrick Moore
Leesie Naqitarvik
Autumn Watson
Daisy Saunders
Description
Discusses institutional and community reintegration needs of offenders in federal facilities. Research based on interviews with 75 offenders, 34 family members, and 73 correctional staff.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 3, Burma: Human Rights, Forgotten Wars, and Survival, Fall, 2000
Description
Describes how the Innu Nation formed a Community Consultation process in order to increase participation in government negotiations, one that has become a model for other indigenous groups.